Used in a Sentence

grimly

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for grimly.

Editorial note

As a transplant to California for 2 years now, grimly apocalyptic articles like this make me question staying.

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Parts of speech2

Quick take

In a grim manner.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of grimly gathered in one view.

adverb

In a grim manner.

adjective

(now rare) Grim-looking, grim-natured.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for grimly.

adverb

In a grim manner.

adjective

(now rare) Grim-looking, grim-natured.

Example sentences

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As a transplant to California for 2 years now, grimly apocalyptic articles like this make me question staying.

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Regardless, it is grimly interesting to watch the next chapter of tech companies becoming increasingly significant in geopolitics.

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Thanks, would be grimly fascinated to hear how that ended up being in there though.

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That idea would be grimly hilarious in a very Modest Proposal sort of way.

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But in another sense, if you've read 1984 it's all too grimly familiar.

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Noting grimly that plenty of cellular modems have been observed in the wild.

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It's grimly amusing that a non-profit created to control superintelligent AI for the benefit of humanity couldn't even handle Silicon Valley PR politics.

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It’s grimly hilarious that anyone in 2025 believes the police wouldn’t do something because that thing is unethical and against their own standards.

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And there's that boot again, grimly stomping on a human face...

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A little later she walked grimly into my room to announce that we'd just traded nukes with the Soviets in the Middle East.

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Humorless Chosen people presiding grimly over a world in terminal decline, fighting Dark Lords, playing out decline-and-fall scripts to which there is no alternative, no Plan B.

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Scottish humor is even more grimly fatalist than English.

Quote examples

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You can read about it in the NYTimes, including a grimly hilarious line about how “The defendants say the Match is intended to help students and performs a valuable service.” Ha!

2

Pre-med students will sometimes memorize their way through calculus; a professor I knew once described it as "grimly impressive".

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Slavery almost always occurs for the purpose of securing the labor of the person concerned." This is grimly apparent to me since I'm typing this out at work on a weekend.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use grimly in a sentence?

As a transplant to California for 2 years now, grimly apocalyptic articles like this make me question staying.

What does grimly mean?

In a grim manner.

What part of speech is grimly?

grimly is commonly used as adverb, adjective.